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Oxcarbazepine
Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal) is a carbamazepine-related dibenzazepine antiseizure prodrug converted to active MHD, a sodium-channel blocker used for focal seizures; notable for hyponatremia risk and few enzyme interactions.
Oxea
Oxea, formerly OQ Chemicals, is a German chemical manufacturer of oxo intermediates and performance chemicals used in coatings, lubricants, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and plastics, formed in 2007.
Oxenfree
Oxenfree is a 2016 supernatural thriller adventure game by Night School Studio, in which teenager Alex opens a ghostly rift on an abandoned military island using a radio.
Oxepane
Oxepane, also known as hexamethylene oxide or oxacycloheptane, is a saturated seven-membered cyclic ether with formula C₆H₁₂O; its ring is harder to synthesize than six-membered ethers and appears in natural products including artemisinin.
Oxepanoprolinamide
Oxepanoprolinamides are a class of fully synthetic antibiotics developed in Andrew Myers's Harvard laboratory from the lincosamide clindamycin, first reported in 2021; its lead compound iboxamycin and later cresomycin stay active against bacteria resistant to clindamycin.
Oxetane
Oxetane, also called oxacyclobutane or trimethylene oxide, is a strained four-membered cyclic ether (C₃H₆O) first synthesized in the 1870s and widely used in medicinal chemistry.
Oxethazaine
Oxethazaine (oxetacaine, INN; Strocain, Mucaine) is a highly potent ethanolamine local anesthetic, C28H41N3O3, active at gastric acid pH and used orally in antacid combinations for gastritis, peptic ulcer, and heartburn pain.
Oxfam
Oxfam, from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (founded 1942), is a global confederation of 20+ charitable affiliates fighting inequality, poverty, and injustice in over 70 countries, headquartered via its Secretariat in Nairobi.
Oxford
Oxford, England: university city on the Thames and Cherwell, home of the University of Oxford, population about 165,200, with a knowledge-intensive economy, severe housing costs, and protected historic skyline.
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University: Oxford post-1992 university founded as the Oxford School of Art in 1865, named after John Henry Brookes, university since 1992; 25,947 students (2024/25), Headington Campus.
Oxford Classical Texts
Oxford Classical Texts, issued as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a series of critical editions of ancient Greek and Latin literature published by Oxford University Press since 1896.
Oxford Clay
The Oxford Clay Formation is a Jurassic mudstone rock unit of southern and eastern England, a major source of brickmaking clay and of exceptionally preserved marine fossils.
Oxford Electric Bell
The Oxford Electric Bell, also called the Clarendon Dry Pile, is an experimental electric bell at Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory that has rung almost continuously since 1840 on batteries never replaced.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), first called A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, is a historical dictionary of English published by Oxford University Press since 1884.
Oxford Group
The Oxford Group, also known as the Buchmanites, was a Christian movement founded by American evangelist Frank Buchman in the 1920s, renamed Moral Re-Armament in 1938.
Oxford House
Oxford House is an arts and community center in Bethnal Green, London, founded in 1884 as a university settlement where Oxford graduates lived and worked among the poor of East London.
Oxford Instruments
Oxford Instruments is a British supplier of high-technology scientific instruments, headquartered in High Wycombe. Founded in 1959 by Sir Martin and Lady Audrey Wood, it began with superconducting magnets.
Oxford Ionics
Oxford Ionics is a British quantum computing company founded in 2019 by Oxford physicists Chris Ballance and Tom Harty that builds trapped-ion quantum computers controlled electronically on silicon chips.
Oxford knee score
The Oxford knee score is a 12-item patient questionnaire measuring pain and function in knee osteoarthritis, scored 0 to 48, introduced in 1998 and used in the NHS PROMs program.
Oxford Manifesto
The Oxford Manifesto (1947) is a declaration of liberal principles drawn up at Wadham College, Oxford, by liberal parties from 19 countries; a founding document of Liberal International stressing political liberty and a world organisation of nations.
Oxford Movement
The Oxford Movement, also called the Tractarian movement, was an Anglican campaign begun at Oxford in 1833 to restore the Church of England's Catholic inheritance, led by Keble, Pusey, and Newman.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies, founded in 2005 as Oxford Nanolabs, is a British company whose handheld MinION sequencer reads DNA and RNA and was used during the 2015 Ebola outbreak.
Oxford poetry anthologies
Oxford poetry anthologies are Oxford University Press's poetry anthology series, chiefly the Oxford Book line (English Verse; American, Irish, war, and period volumes), known for editor-driven canon-making, expanding revisions, and critical controversies.
Oxford RobotCar Dataset
The Oxford RobotCar Dataset is an autonomous driving dataset of over 100 traversals of a roughly 10 km route through Oxford, UK, captured from 2014 to 2015.
Oxford Robotics Institute
The Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) is a robotics and artificial intelligence research institute of the University of Oxford, founded in 2016 within the Department of Engineering Science.
Oxford shoe
Oxford shoe: a lace-up dress shoe defined by closed lacing, with eyelet quarters stitched under the vamp. Also called Balmoral; contrasts with the Derby's open lacing; brogueing is separate decoration. Emerged around 1825 at Oxford University.
Oxford Street
Oxford Street, historically the Tyburn Road, is a major retail street in London's West End, running 1.2 miles from Marble Arch to Tottenham Court Road and home to Selfridges, John Lewis, and Marks & Spencer.
Oxford Union
The Oxford Union Society, founded 1823 in Oxford, is an independent student-led debating society famous for the 1933 King and Country debate, Thursday parliamentary-style debates, and guest speakers from Nixon to the Dalai Lama.
Oxford United F.C.
Oxford United F.C., English football club in Oxford formed 1893 as Headington, renamed 1960; 1986 League Cup winners, Kassam Stadium home, promoted to the Championship in 2024 under Erick Thohir-led ownership.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: founded 1860 on Parks Road, Oxford, the world's first purpose-built natural history museum; neo-Gothic Grade 1-listed building, about 7 million specimens, Megalosaurus bucklandii and the Oxford Dodo, free daily entry.